Ballinadee is on the banks of the River Pound, which flows into the River Bandon, and has a school, one shop and two pubs.

It is 10 miles from Kinsale and 6 miles from Bandon.

Before his death in the local Cork University Hospital in 1996, Ballinadee was the home of international author and publisher Martin Greif. It was here where he wrote his Irish-themed stories under the pseudonym Mairtin O'Griofa. Greif's funeral was held at the Ballinadee Church, of the Church of Ireland's Bandon Union of Parishes.